Here's a glimpse of my review:The appeal and fandom of the Twilight universe is the subject of Tanya Erzen’s new ethnography, Fanpire: The Twilight Saga and the Women Who Love It. The Twilight books, after all, outmatched the Harry Potter novels in the amount of time they remained on the New York Times
bestseller list (xiii). More importantly, Erzen provides glimpses of
the female, and occasionally male, fans of the series, in an empathetic
and thoughtful way. Unlike the media coverage of “Twihards” that
documented this fandom as hysterical and problematic, Erzen offers a
much-needed gender critique of both media coverage and the larger
“Fanpire.” She aptly summarizes each book between her chapters to show
the consequences of their anti-feminist storyline in constructions of
femininity, romantic love, and normative heterosexuality. Twilight
functions as both “a supernatural heterosexual model of eternal passion
and monogamy” (xvi) and a postfeminist fantasy that uplifts any choice
as empowerment.

Rather than dismiss the books as sheer escapism, Erzen documents fan
pleasure (and displeasure) with Meyer’s universe. Moreover, Erzen
simultaneously documents the commodification and consumerism attached to
Twilight, the glorification of heterosexuality and marriage,
and the unpleasant representations of women as damsels (constantly) in
distress.